Koskinen-Olsson, Tarja --- "Digital Libraries: Collective Administration for Online Libraries – A Rightsholders’ Dream or an Outdated Illusion?" [2010] ELECD 512; in Bently, Lionel; Suthersanen, Uma; Torremans, Paul (eds), "Global Copyright" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: Global Copyright

Editor(s): Bently, Lionel; Suthersanen, Uma; Torremans, Paul

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848447660

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Digital Libraries: Collective Administration for Online Libraries – A Rightsholders’ Dream or an Outdated Illusion?

Author(s): Koskinen-Olsson, Tarja

Number of pages: 13

Extract:

17. Digital libraries: collective
administration for online libraries
­ a rightsholders' dream or an
outdated illusion?
Tarja Koskinen-Olsson*

1 INTRODUCTION

Starting in 2005 as a vision called the European Digital Library (EDL),
Europeana1 is now a reality. Since late 2008 it has functioned in pilot
form as a common portal to digitised collections in various European
libraries, archives and museums.
Permissions are needed for online exploitation of works protected
by copyright and related rights by libraries. Such permissions can be
given by rights holders themselves or by their representatives, such as
collective management organisations (CMOs). The primary goal is to
clear the necessary rights for online exploitation effectively. Whether it
takes place by way of individual exercise or collective management is a
subordinate issue. In the following, I explain the state-of-play by way
of concrete initiatives and examples from various European countries.
I leave it for the reader to judge whether the scenario is a dream or an
illusion.




* Tarja Koskinen-Olsson is an international expert in intellectual property
rights with management of copyright and related rights as special focus. She is
a member of the High Level Expert Group of the European Commission on the
European Digital Library Initiative. She was elected as Honorary President of
IFRRO (the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations) in
2001, having served as the Chair from 1993 to 1999. She worked as the CEO of
KOPIOSTO, the Joint Finnish Collective Management Organization, from 1987
to 2003. Her career started with the ...